Multiple scerosis phobia?!
Question: This may sound silly, but I read a small article about M.S recently and since then I seem to have developed a crippling fear of it including waking up in the middle of the night shaking. Advice?!
Answers: This may sound silly, but I read a small article about M.S recently and since then I seem to have developed a crippling fear of it including waking up in the middle of the night shaking. Advice?!
Do not panic! I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and at 34 was admitted to the Rheumatology Ward, where I was surrounded by elderly Patients, all had Arthritis. I was thinking: this is my future, look around and see your future! They were 60, 70, years of age with grandchildren and I was 34! PANIC! Glad to report now 49, my hands are still mobile, I am still mobile and I doubt I will end up as 'bad' as those people I saw, because Medicine has moved on. So while reading about MS, you must always take into account how the Article has been 'spun'. For example, would they write about a very mild case of MS? Or would they want to write about the worst case scenario? The later, because that way it raises awareness. However I have friends with MS, who according to what I have read should be long dead, but they are very much still alive and kicking! I once met a female who told me she had BENIGN MS? No I had never heard of it before! Seems BENIGN MS cannot be diagnosed until after you die, but she was alive? Benign MS means you have one attack and never have another one, hence not being diagnosed until after you die. If you have another attack, well it is not benign, it is relapsing and remitting. So you can have MS, but the attacks could be 20 years apart. Good Luck